[Dx4win] Adding a comment to QSOs in an ADIF file.
Rick Commo
[email protected]
Sat, 23 Feb 2002 07:16:32 -0800
> ADIFComment.exe is a program that will add a COMMENT field to all the QSOs
> in an ADIF file destined to be imported into DX4Win. In my case this
> would be from WriteLog.
>
> It is a quick and dirty file that I wrote in an hour after reading the
> thread in this reflector where the poster lamented having to post a string
> containing the name of the contest into "Notes for this QSO" field of a
> LOT of QSOs. The COMMENT field in an ADIF file goes into the "Notes for
> this QSO" field in DX4Win.
>
> A couple of replies pointed out that he could import a contest as a group,
> but I felt that marking them made sense too. I KNOW that if did it by
> putting a contest in as a group that I would certainly lose the piece of
> paper that had the map of which group was what contest! So I wrote this
> program. If you are interested in it then point your browser at URL:
> ftp://k7log.no-ip.org/ADIFComment.zip.
>
> The ZIP file contains a ReadMe, the program, the source code and some test
> ADI file that I picked up from the ADIF Web site.
>
> I have imported some trivial ADI files into DX4Win with no problems, but
> you should back up your log before you try it for the first time.
>
> One important caveat should be noted. If any QSO in an ADIF file already
> have a comment field to start with then that QSO will end up with two
> comment fields and DX4Win will join them together in the order in which
> they are encountered.
>
> 73s,
> -ricK7log
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